Apache (train)

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Apache

Overview
Service type	Inter-city rail
Status	Discontinued
Locale	Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, west Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Illinois
First service	April 1, 1926 (1926-04-01)
Last service	February 13, 1938
Former operator(s)	Southern Pacific Rock Island
Route
Termini	Los Angeles Chicago
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map v t e Legend Chicago Illinois Iowa Davenport Minneapolis St. Paul Minnesota Iowa Des Moines Iowa Missouri Kansas City Missouri Kansas Topeka Herington McPherson Hutchinson Liberal Kansas Oklahoma Texhoma Oklahoma Texas Dalhart Texas New Mexico Tucumcari Palomas Montoya Newkirk Cuervo Los Tanos Santa Rosa Pintado Pastura Vaughn Duran Torrance Varney Corona Gallinas Tecolote Luna Ancho Coyote Carrizozo Oscura Three Rivers Tularosa Alamogordo Velmont Turquise Orogrande New Mexico Texas Newman Planeport Fort Bliss El Paso Texas New Mexico New Mexico Arizona Douglas Bisbee Junction Fairbank Tucson Casa Grande Phoenix Yuma Arizona California Palm Springs Alhambra Los Angeles

The Apache was a passenger train of the Southern Pacific on its route between Los Angeles and Tucumcari, New Mexico, and over the connecting Rock Island to Chicago. Service over this route had begun as the Golden State Express on February 1, 1925, until the name was changed to Apache. Trains initially carried coaches plus standard and tourist sleepers between Los Angeles and Chicago. On December 11, 1932, the great depression caused consolidation of the Apache with Rock Island trains 7 and 14 east of Tucumcari. The train added standard sleepers between Los Angeles and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and between Chicago and Mexico City via Phoenix, Arizona, in October, 1933. Rock Island resumed operation of the Apache as a separate train on June 1, 1935. The Minneapolis and Mexico City sleepers were eliminated from the train on November 1, 1937, and the Apache was eliminated in favor of the Golden State Limited on February 13, 1938.^[1]